How to Find the IP Address of an Email Sender

All emails come from an IP (Internet Proticol) address. Every computer that has internet access has an IP address. It consists of several numbers that each have a meaning. The IP address is easy to locate in incoming email.

Difficulty: Easy

Instructions

Things You'll Need:

• You will need to have access to an email that has full headers activated. This usually an option somewhere on the open email received. Full headers include time of arrival, who it is to, and who it

1. After you open the email, open the "Full headers" option if you haven't already done so.
   In Outlook Express the process for IP address is different: go to File then select Properties and then look at the bottom "Received From" message and the IP address is located in parenthesis.

2. look at the top few lines and you should see more than the usual from [e-mail] and the subject. Look for something that says X originating IP:

3. The next step is to look at the number next to the originating IP: in my confirmation email from ehow the nuber is [72.5.232.39]. This is the IP address of the computer that was used to send that email.

Tips & Warnings

• Finding the headers (where the IP address is located) is different in each email provider, so this might take a little searching for. As stated above Yahoo has a link to click and in Outlook Express one needs to click on file and select properties. It might still be different with other providers. However, once you find the headers then the IP address IS somewhere in the header of the email.

Resources

• How to find senders IP address

[revisitingnixon]

on 6/4/2007 Congrats on having this article be picked as the winner for the "Top Written Requested How to Article!" Check out the forums and see which other winners we have this week. Check it out at:

http://www.ehow.com/community/forums/forum_1728_ehow-winners:-article-requests.aspx

-Rich